militia

The fighting around Lalibela has involved the army and an Amhara militia that has allied with Tigrayan fighters.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Among the party’s least well-known proposals is the creation of a volunteer militia under the authority of the municipal police to help authorities patrol smaller communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

At age eighteen, he joined the Wiltshire militia in 1807.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

An “autodefensa,” or armed member of the town’s militia, checks a vehicle’s paperwork at one of the barricades erected to protect San Ángel Zurumucapio,.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

General David Wooster was head of the Connecticut militia.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Kurdish leaders in Iraq’s Kurdistan region also have reason to fear the militias.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Zaidi, a 41-year-old businessman, sat beside Trump during the visit and announced a deadline, also set for Wednesday, for Iranian-backed militias to hand over their weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Al-Zaidi had set Wednesday as a deadline for militias to surrender their weapons, but has since postponed it to June 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Parliament member Ofer Cassif, of Hadash, an Arab-Jewish communist party, told AFP he was concerned opposition voters could face intimidation before and during the election -- not only from police but from "private, armed militias".

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz